Hair-singer



(No Model.)

J. H. BEVINGTON. HAIR SINGER.

No. 433,439. Patented Aug. 5, 1890.

W W M I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES H. BEVINGTON, OF FOSTORIA, OHIO, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS,TO CHARLES W. ROBISON, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS.

HAIR-SINGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 433,439, dated August5, 1890.

Application filed September 16, 1889i Serial No. 824,020. (No model.)

T0 (0% whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES H. BEVINGTON, of Fostoria, Seneca county,Ohio, have invented a new and useful Hair-Singer, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to a device for singe ing or cauterizin g the endsof the human hair after being out by the hair-dresser with the object ofclosing the hair-ducts exposed by the barbers shears, and thuspreventing waste of the vital fluids upon which the life and continuanceof the hair depend.

The construction of my device is such as to slightly cauterize and closeup the exposed ends of the cropped hair without inj uriously singeingthe same or impairing its vitality.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I represents the two parts of theinstrument detached and the handle being supplied with alcohol. Fig. IIis an axial section of the instrument. Fig. III is an external viewthereof.

The instrument consists of two separable niembers to wit, a head A and acombined lamp and handle B. The'headAis composed of a cresset l, ofperforated sheet metal, constituting a foraminous hollow shell orcylinder partially closed at its ends by disks 2, having centralorifices or ventages 3. Riveted to the foraminous shell I is a long tubeor socket 4, preferably of spring-steel, and having a longitudinal split5 to take the long cylindrical nozzle or burner 6 0f the other member B,which, below said burner, expands into a cylindrical tube 7, that servesboth as a handle of the instrument and as the wickholder andspirit-chamber of a lamp. The other extremity of the said tube 7 iscapable of being closed by a screw cap or plug 8.

A hole 9 in the shellI serves as a throat or passage-way for the flameinto the said shell which discharges the functions of a Inc or chimney.

10 represents the wick.

The operation of the instrument is as follows: The wick 10, (which maybe a common lamp-wick,) having been drawn through the rear of the tube 7and partly through the burner 6, the said tube is charged with spirit,as shown in Fig. I, and closed at its rear end by the screw-cap 8. Theprotruding end of the wick being then lit, the part B is attached to thepart Aby thrusting its burner into the socket l of the latter. There theproducts of combustion separate into two flames, which, having heatedthe foraminous shell I, the unconsumed gases escape through the ventages3.

The instrument is used by passingit lightly to and fro over the comb asthe latter is pushed through the hair, so as to slightly cauterize andstanch the recently-cut endsof the hair, and to thus keep the fluidcontents from oozing out, and the hair from becoming dry and dead.

It will be seen that the flames do not come in direct contact with thehair, but only the heated sides of the foraminous shell.

The construction of the instrument is such as to enable the burner 6 tobe thrust to a greater or less distance within the socket 4 forregulation of combustion, heating action, &c.

I reserve the right of such obvious modifications of the describedinstrument as consists in constructing the foraminous shell ofwiregauze.

Generally only sufficient spirit will be used at one time for thepresent purposes; but should there remain any unconsumed spirit in thelamp its evaporation may be prevented by closing the burner with asuitable cap or extinguisher 8.

I claim herein as new and of my invention- 1. The hair singer orcauterizer composed of the combination of the foraminous head or cressetA and the combined lamp and handle B, substantially as set forth.

2. The self-heating and separable hair singer or cauterizer, consistingof the combination of the following elements, to wit: part A, consistingof foraminous shell I, having the socket 4, and part B, which consistsof the combined lamp and handle, whose nozzle or burner 6 fits tightlywithin the said socket, as and for the purpose explained.

3. The combination of cresset A, having 5 the long elastic socket 4, andthe combined lamp and handle B, having the long cylindrical burner 6,whereby the combustion and heating action are made capable of regulationin the manner stated.

JAMES H. BEVINGTON.

, \Vitnesses:

T. A. LANG, F. E. SEAGER.

